22 Results for : ruminates
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Soccer Dad: A Father, a Son, and a Magic Season , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 375min
Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels so much praise, W. D. Wetherell tells the true story of his high-school-age son's winning soccer season. Soccer Dad is simultaneously the candid reflections of a devoted father and the enthusiastic observations of a diehard soccer fan. When Matt enters his senior year of high school, it is not without myriad parenting concerns on the part of his father, author W. D. Wetherell. What is his role in shaping his son's future? What will life be like when Matt is away at college? And what of Matt's soccer season? Is Matt's success in soccer just setting him up for disappointment later in life? With the pensive eye of an artist, Wetherell follows his son's team from field to field and win to win and ruminates on topics ranging from soccer's esoteric appeal in America to the conflicting emotions of a parent sending his youngest child out into the world. Reflecting on his own experiences both as a participant and a spectator, Wetherell offers a paean to the sport of soccer and the joys of parenthood. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd Ellis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/008729/bk_adbl_008729_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Brief Lives , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 411min
In this eclectic selection of biographical sketches, Bill Deedes remembers some of the key figures of the 20th century. Political heavyweights such as Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Anthony Eden are reassessed and revalued while record breakers such as Sir Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister are shown to be far more than just their achievements.Further afield, W. F. Deedes ruminates on the chaotic and shady world of Imelda Marcos, the dignity and determination of anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman and the controversial leadership of Ian Smith in Rhodesia. But there are lighter portraits, too. Noel Coward, with his useful advice on trains, Mary Whitehouse’s inadvertent demonstration of pornography and Malcolm Muggeridge’s half-hearted suicide attempt all feature in this delightful compendium.Finally there is an engaging and funny look at Deedes’ great friend Denis Thatcher. In an elegiac essay, we see the man rather than the husband of a famous woman. Stories abound, particularly when on holiday in Spain.... Like his previous books, Dear Bill and At War wth Waugh, Brief Lives is an affectionate, perceptive and anecdotal book, bursting with life, humour and wit. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill Wallis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/macm/001959/bk_macm_001959_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
Why do we keep sheep? Alex Lindén ruminates as he watches his sheep ruminating. Naive and inexperienced, he has ditched his doctoral studies in order to move to a fully working farm in the country with his family, where he is tasked with the responsibility of caring for a herd of sheep. Lindén records his new life in his diary as he tries to manage life on the farm, the ever-escaping sheep and the trials and tribulations that come with being a shepherd - shearing, lambing and confronting the slaughterhouse. As time passes and he gradually settles into the rhythm of shepherding, his naivete fades away and is replaced with stark realisations about what is now his everyday life. He finds himself applying his experiences of animal husbandry to consider our place - as individuals and as a collective organism - in the universe. Is he really the one caring for the sheep, or are they the ones keeping him? Lindén finds both companionship in his flock and a sound, if complex, moral framework for examining the lives we lead. The result is a sensitive and entertaining meditation on the small wonders in our world. Translated by Frank Perry. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Noble. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/qpuk/000936/bk_qpuk_000936_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Holy Lands: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 180min
A witty epistolary novel, both heartwarming and heart-wrenching, about a dysfunctional family - led by a Jewish pig farmer in Israel - struggling to love and accept each other.As comic as it is deeply moving, Holy Lands chronicles several months in the lives of an estranged family of colourful eccentrics. Harry Rosenmerck is an ageing Jewish cardiologist who has left his thriving medical practice in New York - to raise pigs in Israel. His ex-wife, Monique, ruminates about their once happy marriage even as she quietly battles an aggressive illness. Their son, David, an earnest and successful playwright, has vowed to reconnect with his father since coming out. Annabelle, their daughter, finds herself unmoored in Paris in the aftermath of a breakup.Harry eschews technology, so his family, spread out around the world, must communicate with him via snail mail. Even as they grapple with challenges, their correspondence sparkles with levity. They snipe at each other, volleying quips across the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and Europe, and find joy in unexpected sources.Holy Lands captures the humour and poignancy of an adult family striving to remain connected across time, geography and radically different perspectives on life. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jess Einstein, Suzanne Toren, Emily Lawrence, Josh Bloomberg, Peter Berkrot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/051991/bk_adbl_051991_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Fisherman's Fall , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 434min
Originally published in 1964, Fisherman's Fall brings a unique perspective to the world of fall fishing. In the preface, Robert L. Haig-Brown ruminates on the attempts to preserve the salmon and trout in the rivers of British Columbia. What we know could save them, yet what we do contradicts that knowledge. Gaining the knowledge in this book will help fishers learn the nature of the fish and might even inspire some to contribute to their preservation. Fisherman's Fall gives fishers all the tools to become adept at fishing the rivers of British Columbia as well as firsthand knowledge of the fish of those rivers and their habits. Listeners will discover the unique fishing facts and techniques that accompany the fall season, differences between salmon in salt water and fresh water, the ocean years of salmon, the nature of estuaries, steelhead mysteries, and what makes an ideal stream. Besides gathering wise information, listeners get to glimpse the inner thoughts of a fisherman in the chapters describing Haig-Brown's own thoughts while fishing. These wise words will speak to any fisher, and they will even speak to those who have never been on a river. Combining angling advice and inner reflection, this audiobook is a must-have for fishermen and fisherwomen of all ages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John McLain. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013512/bk_adbl_013512_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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M Train
National Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist, told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a roadmap to my life." M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, illustrated with her signature Polaroids, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today.- Shop: buecher
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M Train , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 392min
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids: an unforgettable odyssey of a legendary artist told through the prism of the cafés and haunts she has worked in around the world. It is a book Patti Smith has described as "a road map to my life". M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly between dreams and reality, past and present, and across a landscape of creative aspirations and inspirations, we travel to Frida Kahlo's Casa Azul in Mexico; to a meeting of an Arctic explorer's society in Berlin; to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York's Far Rockaway, which Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits; and to the graves of Genet, Plath, Rimbaud, and Mishima. Woven throughout are reflections on the writer's craft and on artistic creation. Here, too, are singular memories of Smith's life in Michigan and the irremediable loss of her husband, Fred Sonic Smith. Braiding despair with hope and consolation, M Train is a meditation on travel, detective shows, literature, and coffee. It is a powerful, deeply moving book by one of the most remarkable multiplatform artists at work today. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Patti Smith. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004261/bk_rand_004261_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Game of Change: My Zen Steps to Unleash Success, Balance and Happiness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 262min
This book is for all the amazing women out there, in their capacity as daughters, mothers, office-goers, business owners, home keepers, dreamers, and achievers. It is also for all the wonderful men who get to interact with these amazing women. The author is writing about her perception on what worked in nurturing the power of success in the three-important people of her life; her husband, son, and daughter without compromising her life. The juggling multiple rolls is hard work and exhausts people and stress seems to be a norm of life. It makes it hard to come out of this repetitive pattern, making people live in anxiety and fear. It is tiresome and reflects on one's moods, immune system, and health. This book ruminates on people's assumptions, oscillating between rational and emotional silos, bringing the listener toward that critical breakthrough that can change the trajectory of their life.The book contains easy-to-use, scientifically researched formula to enable the change. The author uses her "I am not perfect" mantra to get more from life, which gives an opportunity to change efficiently and effectively into a happier person. This book will inspire the listener on the art of change, offering easy-to-use techniques to help implement the desired change in the areas of life that are no longer working. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephanie Murphy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131530/bk_acx0_131530_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 550min
When Edmund White moved to Paris in 1983, leaving New York City in the midst of the AIDS crisis, he was 43 years old, couldn’t speak French, and only knew two people in the entire city. But in middle age, he discovered the new anxieties and pleasures of mastering a new culture. When he left 15 years later to take a teaching position in the U.S., he was fluent enough to broadcast on French radio and TV, and in his work as a journalist, he’d made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Catherine Deneuve to Michel Foucault. He’d also developed a close friendship with an older woman, Marie-Claude, through which he’d come to understand French life and culture in a deeper way. The audiobook’s title evokes the Parisian landscape in the eternal mists and the half-light, the serenity of the city compared to the New York White had known (and vividly recalled in City Boy). White fell headily in love with the city and its culture: both intoxicated and intellectually stimulated. He became the definitive biographer of Jean Genet; he wrote lives of Marcel Proust and Arthur Rimbaud; and he became a recipient of the French Order of Arts and Letters. Inside a Pearl recalls those fertile years for White. It’s a memoir which gossips and ruminates, and offers a brilliant examination of a city and a culture eternally imbued with an aura of enchantment. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Robert Blumenfeld. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/017745/bk_adbl_017745_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Idle Ideas in 1905 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 365min
The third and final collection in this series of reflections written by one of the wittiest and most whimsical men to press pen against paper. As well as his usual take on the foibles of his fellow Englishmen and women, Jerome ruminates, in his typically liberal fashion, about far-flung countries such as Russia, Africa and China. Jerome was never a 'jelly-bellied flag-flapping imperialist', and his vision, experience and worldliness are revealed to us in the following essays: Are we as interesting as we think we are? Should women be beautiful? When's the best time to be merry? Do we lie abed too late? Should married men play golf? Are early marriages a mistake? Do writers write too much? Should soldiers be polite? Ought stories to be true? Creatures that one day shall be men. How to be happy though little. Should we say what we think or think what we say? Is the American husband made entirely of stained glass? Does the young man know everything worth knowing? How many charms hath music would you say? The White Man's Burden: need it be so heavy? Why didn't he marry the girl? What Mrs Wilkins thought about it. Shall we be ruined by Chinese cheap labour? How to solve the servant problem. Why we hate the foreigner. The author's insightful and entertaining discussions demonstrate yet again that history has a lot to teach us - if only we would listen! ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Newcombe Joyce. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/assm/000106/bk_assm_000106_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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